These two pages from a 1912 Slovenian publication provide an early, pre-WWI accounting of basic information relating to the BFEG (the precursor to the FIG/World Gymnastics) and help reinforce an information infrastructure, about the further-back history of the sport of gymnastics, that has been compromised. In an article in a special issue of the peer-reviewed The International Journal of the History of Sport entitled "The Genesis of the International Sports Federations before 1914", it is stated that the "BFEG’s official archives appear to have been lost" and that the "FIG’s archives, kept at its head office in Lausanne, do not contain documents from before the 1950s." Additionally, it is stated therein "Despite inquiries to the Kingdom of Belgium’s general archives and the cities of Ghent (Belgian Liberal Archives) and Liège (the city where the BFEG was founded), it proved impossible to find records specifically relating to the BFEG."

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